Allison takes a deep breath and talks about Gaza.

Here’s the deal: when Fatah is in charge, Hamas and Islamic Jihad hurl Kassam rockets at Israel. When Hamas is in charge, Fatah hurl the rockets. Unless Fatah and Hamas have it out militarily and a winner is declared — the rocket-firing isn’t going to stop. Someone’s going to be tossing them. But I’m not supposed to wish civil war on them, right? That would be terrible. So I don’t.

Because as Jews we are taught not to wish ill on others. That is our teaching.

And so the rockets continue to get fired. Of course we Israelis aren’t going to sit around twiddling our thumbs and let them hurl rockets at us, and we shouldn’t — that’s not our style and no country can sit back and let its citizens be attacked. We’re going to fire back, and do everything we can to go after the people who are hurling the rockets. And so we bomb and shell, which of course, instantly turns us into the evil bad guys in the eyes of the world.

I agree with Allison… it’s depressing. Terribly so. Makes you just want to duck under the covers and ignore it all.

But you don’t get stronger without getting out of bed and exercising. So I’m not going to be ignoring the world anymore. I’m going to go back to reading and learning everything I can… and I’m not going to keep quiet anymore.

Because Global is Local. This is my world.